Nobel Prize Physics 2010 The 2010 Nobel prize in natural philosophy has gone to the spotters of a sheet of carbon atoms merely a unmarried atom thick that has proven to have singular props. The prize was awarded to physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both of the University of Manchester in England, “for groundbreaking experimentations considering the two dimensional cloth graphene,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct 5.
The cloth is created of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern, forming a single layer thus thin that it’s intimately vaporous. Nobel prize in Natural philosophy 2010 For such a humble cloth, graphene displays some remarkable properties : It behaves electrons with extremely low resistance, can take heat 10 times better than atomic number 29 and exhibits unusual quantum effects. Graphene is as well flexible and stronger than steel.
“It’s an amazing small cloth,” enounces physicist Joseph Stroscio of the NIST’s Gaithersburg, Md., campus.
In a paper printed in Science in 2004, Geim, Novoselov and their joint authors lined drawing out a undivided layer of carbon atoms from black lead, the same cloth in a pencil (ATOMIC NUMBER 50 : 10 23 04, p. 259). (A speedy grocery list dashed off with a pencil might check minuscule totals of graphene, as a matter of fact.) That technically taking exploit kicked off intense enquiry as scientists hotfooted to characterise the outre material. In the six twelvemonths since its discovery, nearly 50,000 enquiry papers on graphene have been written.
A plane sheet of carbon atoms ordered in a honeycomb lattice has impressive props.
Credit : Alexander Alus.
Graphene may form the basis for novel kinds of electronics, gossamer displays, efficient solar panels or even lightweight plastic composite materials for utilization in aerospace and other applications.
“When you mates it with all of the applications, that’s what whips physicists into a delirium,” Stroscio enounces. “I’d like to reckon a high speed graphene transistor in my cell phone.” .
Nobel prize in Natural philosophy 2010 Geim and Novoselov will split the prize money, worth about $1.5 million.
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